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there is nothing from outside the man that entering into him can defile him, but the things which come out of him, those are what defile the man.
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If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.
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And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
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And he said unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not understand that anything from outside that enters into the man cannot defile him?
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Because it enters not into his heart, but into the belly, and
the man goes out to the privy and purges all foods.
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For he had said that
it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man.
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For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders,
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the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:
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all these evil things come out from within and defile the man.
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And from there he arose and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entering into a house, desired that no man know
of it; but he could not be hid.
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For a
certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him and came and fell at his feet;